•50 On three neio Moths from Kilima-njaro and Natal. 



p. 52) as intermediate between Pedoptila and AgaJope ; the 

 transverse veining of the costal border of primaries, never- 

 theless, is wanting in both these genera ; but I find it ex- 

 tremely highly developed in the Chalcosiid genus Callamesia 

 (fig. 6), even extending to the second subcostal branch, and it 

 is not at all unlikely that other genera of the same family 

 may prove to have traces of the same unusual structural 

 peculiarities. 



It will be remembered that when I described a fossil 

 butterfly (Geol. Mag. 1873, vol. x.) Mr. Scudder objected to 

 its being regarded as a lepidopterous insect ou the ground 

 that he had discovered what he believed to be traces of trans- 

 verse veins upon the wings, a feature which he characterized 

 (see Geol. Mag., Oct. 1874) as "decidedly anti-lepidopterous." 

 To this opinion he still adheres, although I have shown that 

 cross veins of the nature of those which he believed to exist 

 in Paloiontina are by no means unusual in some families, such 

 as, for instance, the Cossidse, Hepialidfe, or Psychidte : had I 

 described a fossil specimen of Callamesia as a moth there is 

 every probability that Mr. Scudder would, and with greater 

 excuse, have referred it to the Sialidas ; whilst the genus 

 ^copelodesj fig. 5 (Liraacodidas), which has imperfect transverse 

 veins across the costal borders of both primaries and secon- 

 daries and a series of divergent transverse veins across the 

 inner border of the primaries, would, I think, be a poser, in 

 spite of its possession of these Orthopterous characters. 



Dianeura Jacksoni, sp. n. (Figs. 2, 3.) 



(J ? . Hyaline white, the base of primaries and basal half 

 of secondaries suffused with pale yellow ; the veins and an- 

 tennae blackish : body above pale bi-own, below brownish 

 testaceous, the legs almost bare. Expanse of wings, ^ 22 

 millim., ? 31 millim. 



Manda Island, June 1886 {F. J. Jackson). 



The discoidal cell of secondaries in this species is much 

 less prolonged in front than in D. Qoochii. I have figured a 

 curious abnormality in the neuratiou of the female at flg. 3. 



